The New Student's Reference Work/Fitzpatrick, Hon. Sir Charles

1466236The New Student's Reference Work — Fitzpatrick, Hon. Sir Charles

Fitzpatrick, Hon. Sir Charles, was born in the city of Quebec in 1853, and educated at Laval University. For six years (1890-6) a member of the Quebec Legislature, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1896. He was solicitor-general and, afterwards, minister of justice in the Laurier administration. He became chief-justice of the supreme court in 1906.